Lecture planned about women during Civil War

ZANESVILLE -- The Pioneer and Historical Society of Muskingum County will host a lecture titled "Ohio Women and the Civil War Home Front," featuring Kelly D. Selby, at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Stone Academy Historic Site and Museum, 115 Jefferson St. It is free and open to the public.

Selby is an assistant professor at Walsh University, where she teaches United States, Civil War and women's history. She studied 19th century war and society at Kent State University, earning her doctorate in 2008. She recently served on the Civil War 150 Interpretive Committee for the Ohio Historical Society.

This program reveals the importance of Ohio's women by exploring their wartime activities on the home front. Selby will detail the activities of the Soldiers Aid Society and the Sanitary Fairs in Cleveland and Cincinnati.

The lecture is the third of a series of commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. The series, titled "Civil War: the Home Front," is funded, in part, by the Ohio Humanities Council, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

For more information, call the historical society at 740-454-9500 or visit muskingumhistory.org.

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Lecture planned about women during Civil War

ZANESVILLE -- The Pioneer and Historical Society of Muskingum County will host a lecture titled 'Ohio Women and the Civil War Home Front,' featuring Kelly D. Selby, at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Stone